David Attenborough Quotes

There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.

Free trade: certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat; and the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.

It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

Globalization must be controlled.

Free trade would place our farmers and workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.

Globilization is here to stay.

We're the only dinosaurs left who maintain that the myth of "free trade" really exists.

We have not addressed the effects of global economics where we are the only free traders in town.

Belief in the panacea-like qualities of free trade amounts to ‘collective insanity’.

We’re not at the endpoint of globalization but somewhere near the starting line.

Under the guise of trade deals and trade agreements, its [free trade] really been used to keep workers in the world suppressed in terms of their wages or qualities of life.